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Tuesday 8 March 2022
Taiwan III-V IC makers gearing up for Wi-Fi 7 chip market boom
With RF integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) stepping up the development of power amplifiers (PAs) for Wi-Fi 7 FEM (front-end module) solutions, Taiwan-based gallium arsenide (GaAs)...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
IC design houses seeking long-term contracts with notebook clients
Taiwan-based IC design houses are striving to reach long-term supply agreements with their notebook customers to support the order commitments required by their foundry partners,...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
UMC negotiates higher quotes for new contract with Samsung
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has managed to negotiate higher quotes for a new, long-term agreement (LTA) it struck with Samsung Electronics, according to sources...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Taiwan MCU suppliers see customers start stockpiling
Taiwan-based MCU suppliers have seen their customers start stockpiling amid unstable international conditions, with clear order visibility extended to the end of the second quarter,...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Will India succeed in chip manufacturing? Industry body weighs in
The recent months have seen a lot of buzz about semiconductor manufacturing in India after the country's government announced incentives to encourage the sector. As many as five companies...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Political economists' views over Russia-Ukraine crisis, China and semiconductors (Part 2)
DIGITIMES invited Dr. Ming-chin Monique Chu, lecturer in Chinese politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton, and Alex Capri,...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
GF announces next-gen silicon photonics solutions
GlobalFoundries' next-generation silicon photonics platform, GF Fotonix, is available now to address the explosive growth of soaring data volumes while significantly reducing power...
Monday 7 March 2022
Can SMIC help Russia survive tech sanctions?
Governments around the world have imposed harsh export restrictions against Russia to limit its access to semiconductors and other tech goods from overseas. Taiwan and South Korea...
Monday 7 March 2022
Highlights of the day: Predictable changes and unpredictable chaos disrupt markets
Tesla's Model 3 has been selling well, but Tesla's Model Y will probably upstage the Model 3, and meanwhile, the competing...
Monday 7 March 2022
Political economists' views over Russia-Ukraine crisis, China and semiconductors (Part 1)
The Russian invasion into Ukraine caught the world by surprise and we have not seen any sign of Russian attacks subsiding. Half the globe away from the battleground, many pundits...
Monday 7 March 2022
Notebook ODMs see shipments fall short of orders by 20%
Notebook ODMs now still see their shipments fall short of orders by 20% as their production remains constrained by persistently tight supply of power management ICs (PMICs), MOSFETs...
Monday 7 March 2022
Global semiconductor sales up 26.8% in January, says SIA
The global semiconductor industry generated sales of US$50.7 billion in January, up 26.8% over the January 2021 total of US$40 billion, but down by a slight 0.2% compared with the...
Monday 7 March 2022
Phison expects NAND flash shortfall from mid-May to June
The global supply of NAND flash memory is expected to be significantly tight between mid May and the end of June, due mainly to a substantial cutback in output at Kioxia-Western Digital...
Monday 7 March 2022
India roundup: Tata and Renesas to build EV innovation center in India
Renesas Electronics and Tata Elxsi set up Next Generation EV Innovation Center, which...
Friday 4 March 2022
Equipment maker Symtek to embrace strong 2022
Taiwan-based Symtek Automation Asia, which provides automation equipment to support capacity expansions at PCB and IC substrate makers, expects to post a double-digit revenue surge...